The forum for general posting. Come join the madness.
-
themanintheseersuckersuit
- Posts: 7635
- Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:37 pm
- Location: South Carolina
#1
Post
by themanintheseersuckersuit » Tue May 12, 2015 7:44 pm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... tuary.html
Oscar Holderer, who has died aged 95, was the last known survivor of the team of German rocket scientists who moved to America after the Second World War under the leadership of Wernher von Braun, and worked on the Saturn V rocket which launched the crew of Apollo 11 on the first manned space flight to the moon in 1969.
But Holderer, who took US citizenship in 1955, never faced questions over his Nazi connections or wartime role and was proud to be an American.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
